Leveraging Language: Preliminary evidence from a language-based intervention at the University of Cape Town

This paper assesses the effectiveness of essay tutorials offered to first-year economics students at the UCT (University of Cape Town) in their first language (L1). All students in the study are first-language speakers of an African language. Firstly, using propensity score matching, we econometrica...

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Main Authors: Emma Whitelaw, Tessa Dowling, Samantha Filby
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Western Cape 2019-12-01
Series:Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning
Online Access:http://cristal.ac.za/index.php/cristal/article/view/223